The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, October 16, 1913, Image 4

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WORLD DEMANDS JUSTICE JFOR MENDELBEILIS, ON TRIAL FOR "RITUAL MURDER"Kiev, Russia, Oct. 16. Confrontedon one side with the necessity of giving a victim to the-Jew-b'alting Russians and their czar-on the otherside with the necessity of placatinga civilized world that has lifted itshand in horror at racial hatred, anddemanded justice, the prosecution inthe case of Mendel Beilis, chargedwith "ritual murder" is struggling ina hopeless battle.The contention of the defense thatthe murder was the result of conspiracy and that the indictment ofBeilis was brought about through thesame conspirators is strengthened bythe testimony of the prosecution'sown witnesses.More evidence was given that Eugene and Valtine Cheberyak, the lastchildren to see the murdered boyaUvewho have since died, were murdered by those seeking to convictBeilis.Polistchuk, a detective, who, during his testimony, interrupted thecourt to smoke a cigarette, sworethat Krassovsky, former head of theKiev detective service, poisoned theCheberyak children by giving thempoisoned cakes.Mrs. Vera Cheberyak, who is a police character, and a leader of a bandof thieves, added a tale of bribery.She has been in jail several times.She testified that the journalist,Brushkovsky, told hefthat her husband would lose his position in theKiev postoffice unless the, Cheberyaks, parents and children, helped torun down the murderer of Tushinsky.However, as the two Cheberyakchildren who are dead would havebeen the most valuable witnesses forthe Jew, Beilis, and as Vera is believed to have endeavored to persuade a boy to testity that he hadseen Beilis dragging the-Yushinskyboy toward an oven in "the brickyards,her testimony has no value. .Ludmilla Cheberyak, sister of thetwo dead children, and child of VeraCheberyak, testified that she hadseen Beilis kidnap the murdered boy,but her testimony was flatly contradicted by Eudovic Nakonetchny, another child.The manager of the brick workswhere Beilis was employed testifiedthat the Jew was at'work on the dayof the murder, which was not a holiday. 'The detective Polistchuk addedfurther sensation to his testimony bytelling of the death-bed scene of theboy, Eugene Cheberyak. Polistchukdeclared the boy was trying to tellBomething, but his mother kept re-'peating: "Say I am not to blame, gay4I am not to blame," and, exhausted,the boy replied: "Leave me alone,mother."Evidence .had pointed strongly tothieves associated with the Cheberyak wofcaan as the murderers of theboy because he possessed certain se-'crets of theirs, upon which he had;stumbled, and the Cheberyak woman',wished evidently to force Eugenewho was the last child with the Yushinsky boy, to clear her of any susipicion.Beilis described to the court theJmethod by which unleavened breadis' made. He said a rabbi was alwaysnear to insure cleanliness and strictobservance of the ritualPROTESTANT EPISCOPALCONVENTION TO PROTESTNew York- jRev. John Howard,Melish, rector of Holy Trinity church,"Brooklyn, declares that i." resolutionwill be passed by the Protestant Epls-1copal convention, condemning the"ritual murder" trial, and it will becabled to the Metropolitain of theHoly Orthodox Church of Russia andtelegraphed to the Russian ambassador at Washington."We call upon the archbishops!. -X -. ..' .-Jfcj